THE PYD / PKK NEO-STALINISM IN WEST KURDISTAN SYRIA (ROJAVA)
“Every day they were coming and going… [Then in the beginning of February] they called and said tomorrow they would come to burn the house… I stayed at my in-laws’ house… After breakfast [it was a Monday at around 8am or 9am] one car came with a commander who needed an Arabic translator… It was me, my mother and father-in-law, sister-in-law and my kids at my in-laws’ house and we hid my father-in-law because we were afraid they would arrest him… They started pouring fuel in my in-laws house. My mother-in-law was there refusing to leave and they just poured it around her… The commander was leading the operations… They found my father-in-law and began hitting him on his hands… I said, ‘Even if you burn my house I will get a tent and pitch it. This is in my place. I will stay in my place.’ But they said the problem was not with the house but with the people in the house … They were taking things from the house, the window frames, the doors, the water pump, all the stuff from the house… For 13 years you build a life and they leave you with nothing.” www.mesop.de